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Rev. Charles A. Blanchard 99
seekers after God who really found Him, not simply seekers, but
seekers who found Him; so there are undoubtedly in the Greek Catholic
Church many humble God-fearing souls, men and women who in their
darkness, feeling after God if haply they may find Him, do find Him;
because, you know, God is so anxious to save anybody that He puts
Himself in the road to meet any soul that is really seeking after Him.
And I imagine that one of the things that we will be greatly sur-
prised about by and by is to see how many really saved people there
are in these horrible countries about which we are hearing from time
to time.
I am very much afraid that I am going to say something I ought
not. My wife said to me, as I was leaving the house: "Now, don’t
tell the people any of these horrible stories. They are enough to make
the women faint away." And I was greatly interested to see that my
brother did not speak of the horrible things at all, and I am going to
try to avoid them. But if I slip once in a while, you will forgive me
on the ground that I am not going to give you a great many things,
which are absolutely true, and which I believe people ought to know;
but I shall not tell them in view of this domestic situation that I
have just revealed to you.
Look on the Fields
The first thing I was intending to say this morning was that in a
meeting of this kind we ought to get back to John 4:35, "Lift up
your eyes, and look on the fields, for they are white already to har-
vest." The trouble with us is that we do not lift up our eyes enough,
—
we keep them down. You women are looking at the floor and the
dinner table and the kitchen stove, and you are looking at the ironing
and things of that kind,—and that is very desirable, it helps us men
to have better times,—but the Bible tells us to look up. "Lift up
your eyes, and look on the fields." Now if we can only get to doing
that more, we will have more sympathy with people. The failure to
do this very thing that I speak of is one reason why we are as selfish
as we are, and why we are so mean as we are, and why we are so
self-conceited, and why God can use us so little. If we could cultivate
the habit of keeping our eyes on the field, keeping our eyes fixed
upward, and not on our own little corners, we should sympathize with
people more; and that would lead us to greater exertions for them,
and we should accomplish a thousand things for the world we never
will accomplish unless we lift up our eyes and look on the fields. I
was struck by the map that was here yesterday,—that wonderful
map, showing the size of Russia. The minute you lift up your eyes,
and look on that field, that is the first impression you will get. Here
is a country with nine million square miles of territory in it. Now
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